ASHTON FIGHTS
BACK FOR AUSI
Ashton Agar broke a host of long-standing records in Test cricket with a stunning 98 runs on
debut as Australia fought back in the first Ashes
Test at Trent Bridge.
Batting at number 11 and with Australia reeling at
9 for 117, Agar played a fearless knock and
shared in a record-breaking 163-run partnership
for the 10th wicket with Phil Hughes (81 not out)
to rescue Australia's ailing innings.
Agar and Hughes's last-wicket partnership was
the highest ever by any nation in the history of
Test cricket, with Agar scoring the highest-ever
innings by a number 11 batsman.
More stories and pictures on page 12.

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE: RAJAPAKSE
A surfer who was knocked unconscious by Mr Rajapakse is being treated in St Vina whale at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday cent's Hospital for head and shoulder injumorning says he feels lucky to be alive.
ries.
Bishan Rajapakse, 38, was surfing with a Witness Lachlan Harris says the whale
friend when a whale "the size of a bus" appeared to be frolicking with the surfers.
surfaced close to the beach around 10:30am
(AEST).
"They were playing and the whale was
frolicking with them and having a lot of fun
Mr Rajapakse says when he paddled over to and sort of popping its head out," Mr Harris
take a look, he noticed the whale directly said. "It just flicked its tail and some surfers
underneath him and woke up later on the were in the wrong [place] and the next thing
sand.
you know a surfboard is flying in the air
[and] swimmers are getting thrown out of
"The whale actually moved pretty quickly the water. It was unbelievable.
so I guess it's made me cautious to see what
could happen," he said.
"What a dinner party story for the surfer.
How many people get beaten up by a whale
"[I know] it's better to look at them from on an average Sunday morning? Not that
afar [but] it's pretty hard to move away from many I don't think." NSW Ambulance
that temptation, because I guess the whale Service spokesman Adam Wallace says the
was looking so placid."
incident was an unusual one for paramedics.

NED IS THE NEW
MAYOR FOR
LIVERPOOL

Ned Mannoun, the Mayor of Liverpool City Council with
his two sons, Solomon, 11 months and newborn Jacob.
Picture by Radio Apna News

Born in Boston USA, 30 year old Ned was elected as Mayor of Liverpool
Council for the next four years from 8th September 2012.
Just days before the election Ned became a father for the second time, with
his wife Tina giving birth to their son Jacob at 3am Thursday morning.
Ned and the Liberal team, made up of new Councillor’s and returning experienced Councillors Mazhar Hadid and Tony Hachiti.
Campaigned strongly on improving community safety, and especially the
placement of CCTV cameras in the Liverpool CBD, creating safety for shoppers and business alike.
The Liverpool Indian Business is awaiting the improvement in services
provided by the Council and the possible removal of parking meter which
has caused a drop in the local business.
According to the general business community, especially Indian shops and
restaurants in George Street and surrounding streets, there is an urgent need
for the council to revisit it’s parking meter policy as the business are suffering as sales are down.
Radio Apna Digital news now understands that the Indian businesses are
forming a lobby group called “Liverpool Indian Retailers and Manufacturers
Association” which will organise events in George Street to attract a growth
of business in CBD.

SYDNEY’S NEW 24/7 HINDI
DIGITAL RADIO: Radio APNA
Radio Apna Digital Sydney, is Australia’s first
24/7 Digital Hindi Radio, broadcasting on a National Hindi Network.
Radio Apna Digital Sydney has a wider coverage
area, and Radio Apna Digital will launch the
Digital network in Melbourne and Brisbane in the
coming months.
Located in the heart of Liverpool, Radio Apna can
be heard on a DAB + Radio at your homes and in
your cars.
Gone are the days where listeners had to listen to
Radio on the decoders and via internet.
Radio Apna Digital is also available on the internet and via I-Phone apps and on the smart and
blackberry mobile phones and Android mobile
phone apps.
Radio Apna Digital offers exceptional quality bourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in August
sound and a range of exciting features to enhance 2009. Low power DAB+ trial signals switched on
in Canberra (July 2010) and Darwin (August
your listening experience.
2010)
Clearer sound and improved reception.
Where can I buy a new DAB+ radio?
Tuning by station name, not frequency, More than 800 stores throughout Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra* and
making it easy to find Radio Apna Digital
Darwin* are stocking digital radios including;
Scrolling text on screen with artist and song Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Bing Lee, The
information, weather and news updates and Good Guys, Myer, David Jones, Big W, JB Hi Fi,
Target, Retravision, Radio Rentals and specialist
much more!
audio retailers as well as online retailers.
Additional features on some digital radio *Low power test transmodels include the ability to pause and m i s s i o n s
only
rewind live radio and broadcast slideshow What digital radio
images. The technology allows in the future models are available?
for downloadable music direct to the radio's There are a large selecmemory and Electronic Program Guides.
tion of models includWith digital radio all you need is a digital receiver ing DAB+ clock radios
or a device with a DAB+ chip in it and that’s it – with iPod docks, WiFi
no subscription fees, no messing about with sign- and DAB+ combinaing up or logging on, just tune in or buying a tions, HiFi compodecorder radio or a poor quality narrow cast nents, micro and mini
radio..
s ystem s,
por table
The Australian commercial radio industry players, hand held MP3
launched digital broadcasting in five capital cities & MP4 players with
– Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and DAB+, USB's, set top
Perth throughout May 2009, creating a new wave boxes and digital radio
of consumer interest and excitement about this for your car. Plus there
well-loved medium.
are digital radios with
In 2010 digital radio trial services switched on in small screens showcasCanberra and Darwin, Radio Apna Digital is ing radio with pictures
Australia’s First 24/7 Digital Hindi Radio.
– fully illustrating the
You will need a new radio to tune into digital DAB+ capabilities with
radio and these are available from retailers Aus- album covers, presenter
tralia-wide.
photos and sports
Broadcasting from different bands of the fre- results.
quency spectrum directly affects the characteris- How much will a
tics of AM, FM and DAB+ transmissions. Whilst DAB+ radio cost?
AM is characterised by longer wavelengths, Like any product
ensuring it can travel further but is subject to range, digital radio
higher degrees of interference, FM broadcasts prices vary depending
from VHF Band II (88-108MHz), a higher fre- on the features and
quency resulting in shorter wavelengths. Whilst capabilities. Entryreception is largely improved compared to AM, level models (with
interference may still occur, but with Digital, you scrolling text) start
get a blue-ray sound quality.
from around $39.
Radio Apna will provide a National Hindi service There are now over
in Australia.
120 DAB+ radio modWhere is digital radio available? els available, check the
Digital radio was launched by all commercial and website for more inforpublic service broadcasters in Sydney, Mel- mation.

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Who makes DAB+ digital radios?
Bush, Revo, Grundig, Directed, JVC, Kenwood,
Pure, Roberts, Sangean, Teac, Yamaha, Oxx
Digital, Cowan, Kaiser Baas, Lenoxx, Philips,
Onkyo, Tivoli, sTone Tech, iRiver, Sony, LG,
Panasonic, Kogan and Shintaro are just some of
the manufacturers making DAB+ digital radios.
Other electronics manufacturers are currently
developing further DAB+ digital radio products.
Check the website regularly for a list of digital
radios available.
Can I receive AM and FM on digital radio?
Digital radios come in a range of different models. To ensure your radio receives digital radio
services in Australia it must be DAB+ enabled.
Most DAB+ radios can also receive analogue FM,
and some even AM. However, where coverage is
available, you’ll always be able to hear your
favourite AM and FM stations simulcast on
DAB+ in digital radio quality sound.
Is digital radio the same as internet radio?
No, digital radio is broadcast free to air over the
airwaves via DAB+ technology. Internet-only
radio services are streamed over the telecommunications networks and incur a download cost which
varies depending on the internet service provider
package. Radio Apna is a Free to air broadcast
radio.

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Junaid Thorne
back in Perth
after being
deported

Unleaded
fuel spills
from
Caltex oil
terminal in
NSW

About 130,000 litres of
unleaded fuel has
spilled from an oil terminal in Sydney's south
-east overnight.
Emergency service
crews were called to
the Caltex refinery in
Banksmeadow, near
Port Botany, about
1.30am AEST.
Fire and Rescue Superintendent Tom Cooper
says workers were operating the tank valve
when it malfunctioned.
"Fire crews are on the
scene and they're applying a foam blanket
to the petrol to stop the
fumes from coming
into contact with any

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ignition sources," he opened.
said.
The road into the PatCaltex spokesman Sam rick Shipping Terminal
Collyer says the fuel remains closed.
spilled into the bund
Mr Collyer says less
wall around the tank.
than 10 per cent of the
He says the leak has 2-million-litre tank was
spilled and the incident
now been contained.
will not affect supply.
A firefighter has been
taken to hospital suffer- "I'm not aware of any
ing headaches and two recent incidents of this
type. It's obviously
workman
w e r e something that we plan
splashed with fuel and for as part of our emerwere treated at the gency procedures but it
scene.
thankfully is not a common occurrence," he
An exclusion zone was said.
set up although Botany
Road and Foreshore "But we'll be investiRoad have now re
gating to see why this
has occurred."

An Australian man who was deported from
Saudi Arabia after his brother was jailed for
terrorism offences has arrived in Perth.
Junaid Thorne had his passport taken by
Saudi authorities after being detained for
protesting against the ongoing detention of
his brother, Shayden, in 2011.
Shayden Thorne, 25, has since been sentenced to more than four years in prison for
supporting and encouraging terrorism.
Junaid Thorne said his brother's confessions
to the crimes were extracted as a result of
torture.
Mr Thorne went into hiding in Saudi Arabia
after his passport was confiscated, but he
eventually turned himself in to authorities
and the deportation process began.
After arriving in Perth this morning, he said
he was happy to be with his family and he
would continue to support his brother.
Both men are originally from Perth and their
mother also lives there.
The mother, who does not want to be identified, has called on the Federal Government
to make a direct approach to the Saudi king
to get her son released from prison.
She says her sons are no danger to anyone,
they simply spoke out against the Saudi
government.
The Federal Government says it did all it
could to represent the interests of Shayden
Thorne.
With time already served, he is expected to
spend the next three years in a Saudi jail.

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Naidu Calls Australian Govt to
Engages with Fiji Government

Federal Treasure Chris Bowen with Fiji Foods Managing Director Shanil Naidu recently in Sydney, NSW
Picture by Radio Apna Digital News
Shanil Naidu, a Fiji born
successful Businessman,
having manufacturing and
hotel business interest in
Sydney and in Fiji was
seen in a active discussion
with the former Minister
for Immigration during a
community engagement
with the Vetran Minister.
Chris Bowen is now the
new Federal Treasure and
welcomes the move by Fiji
community who has strong
roots with the people and
the Government. Naidu
believes in dialogue and
communication and he
states that continuous engagement will be more

fruitful than sanctions as it union members.
is affecting it’s people.
Chris Bowen strongly beNaidu operates a hotel lieves that he wants Labour
business in Sigatoka, Fiji to consult more with memwhich has not only created bers
rather than union
employment but also gave bosses and allow other
an opportunity for his hard groups to affiliate with the
earned investment to con- party.
tribute towards the Fiji
economy.
Recognising that Labour is
bleeding members, and
The 40 year old Federal those who attend branch
Minister had joined the meetings no longer reflect
Australian Labour Party at a “microcosm” of the comthe age of 15 during the munity, he canvasses for a
Hawke-Keating govern- raft of reforms to develop
ment, to weaken its links power and increase particiwith trade unions by end- pation.
ing the requirement that
party members also be Naidu has been instrumen-

tal in securing much
needed 2012 Fiji Flood
relief for the people of Fiji
and still engages with the
Australian Government to
allow development in Fiji.
Recently Naidu approached the former Minister for Immigration in
engaging with the current
Fiji Military regime in Fiji
and develop a roadmap
towards 2014 Elections.
According to Naidu, it is
important that the Australian Government maintain
its relationship with Fiji
and support the roadmap
towards democracy in Fiji.

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W I L L B O L LY W O O D B E
CHANGED BY SUNNY LEONE
Its the first time that Priyanka
Chopra has done a full
fledged item song, but it
seems the viewers have taken
a better liking to Sunny
Leone's item song. The two
songs that we are talking
about are 'Laila' and 'Babli
Badmaash'.
Both are from the same movie,
Shootout at Wadala.

designed by Manish Malhotra. Shootout at Wadala is the sequel office.
Sunny Leone's song on the other

Priyanka Chopra has danced
on the tunes on 'Babli Badmaash' whereas Sunny Leone
is seen getting groovy to
'Laila'. On YouTube, Sunny's
song has surpassed Priyanka
Chopra's song.
However Sunny Leone's song
came in trouble with the censor
board. The source adds, “The
Censor Board felt that it had to
be changed to make it more
appropriate for the TV audience. The makers had to re-dub
the line and the new version
will now be shown on television.” Composed by Anand Raj
Anand and sung by Mika Singh,
the song has her seducing John
Abraham and Tushar Kapoor.
It is one of the most raunchiest
numbers, and it is growing extremely popular. The song has
been extremely stylishly sung
and shot.

hand is more raunchy. She has t o
taken the raunchiness factor to
another level altogether.
On the other hand, Priyanka
Chopra's item song is more of a
disco number, where she will be

seen paying a tribute to Amitabh Shootout at Lokhandwala which
On the official YouTube page of Bachchan's hit song from released in 2007. Both the inShootout at Wadala, Priyanka
Yaarana, “Saara Zamana stallments have been directed by
Chopra's item song had 43 lakh
likes in just 20 days, but Sunny Haseeno Ka Deewana.” her Sanjay Gupta. In the first outLeone's item song had 73 lakh costume has also been designed
ing, the film starred Sanjay
likes in just 6 days of it being
keeping
this
in
mind,
it
has
Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Rohit Roy,
uploaded. Priyanka Chopra's
number is retro style based and micro balls attached to it.
Tushar Kapoor in the lead roles.
she is seen in a black cat suit
It did extremely well at the box

BOLLYWOOD NEWS

ISHAQ

ZANZEER

In the second outing, which is a
film based on the first ever
encounter recorded by the
Mumbai Police stars, John
Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Tushar
Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut in
the lead roles. Apart from the
item song, Sunny Leone also
has a supporting role in the film.
Sunny Leone made her big
screen with Jism 2.

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OUR PEOPLE & LIFESTYLES

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Fiji Sports in Memory Lane

The Australia Fiji Soccer Association and Radio Apna Digital Battle of the Giants soccer championship last year at Nanevah Club Grounds,
Smithfield road, Bonnyrigg, Liverpool.
In the all age category, there were 4 pools who had battle for the main prize money. Pool 1 had Ba, Rewa, and Navua. Pool 2 had Lautoka,
Savusavu and Rakiraki, Pool 3 has Nadroga and Dreketi. Pool 4 has Tailevu Naitasiri, Labasa and Nasinu.